An evidence-informed mental health workshop providing students the tools to protect and maintain their own wellbeing.
Session Snapshot
Workshop Length: 60 minutes
Appropriate Ages:
- Years 9-12 (suicide may be mentioned but is not the program’s core focus)
- Years 6-8
Group Sizes: Up to 250 students
Student Learning Objectives:
Understand Mental Health
- Describe mental health as something everyone experiences.
- Recognise they may be struggling or unwell
Support Personal wellbeing
- Identify simple actionable tools that support and protect mental health.
- Reflect on their current wellbeing habits identifying tools that currently work for them
- Identity at-least one wellbeing tool they can strength and how to do so.
Help-Seeking
- Identify trusted adults, professionals, services and support pathways
- Understand the importance of accessing external help if required.
The Right Tools Matter – Especially for Mental Health
Unhealthy habits, isolation and social pressures mean students are more challenged than ever to stay mentally healthy. That’s why we created the Heroes Toolkit.
Heroes Toolkit equips your students with eight simple mental health tools to maintain their wellbeing and protect themselves from mental illness.
These tools cover a range of positive influences—including connections, nutrition, self-care, communication, mindfulness, movement and energising daily routines—that your students can use every day.
Heroes Toolkit goes beyond theory. Our experienced facilitators guide interactive sessions, sharing their personal experiences with these tools and showing how they can be picked up and put down at any time.
This workshop also promotes help-seeking, showing students simple ways to talk about struggles or access support. Every student receives a Heroes Toolkit wallet card, and each school a poster, to remind them of the eight tools and the available professional support (in and out of school).
Mental health maintenance takes work. But our one-hour workshop gives your students simple, lasting strategies to maintain wellbeing and protect against mental illness (even with little time, energy or support).
This zero2hero workshop will include age-appropriate mental health and mental illness discussions, with a focus on help-seeking. Suicide may be mentioned for older age groups. While we provide information on support services, please make sure students can access support before, during and after the session.
What Students Will Learn
By the end of the session, your students will confidently:
- Define mental health and understand it’s a changing state of mind.
- Apply any of our eight mental health tools to support their daily wellbeing.
- Recognise any neglected tools and take steps to put them in practice.
- Seek professional support should they feel the need and understand what to expect.
The 8 Tools in the Heroes Toolkit
Students are given relevant, real-world techniques to help maintain their mental wellbeing and enhance the protective factors against mental ill health:
- Stay Connected – Build meaningful relationships across three types of connection (intimate, relational, collective)
- Eat to Feel Better – Understand the gut-brain connection basics and how food impacts mood
- Accept Yourself – Practice self-care and self-compassion, and challenge negative self-talk
- Talk About It – Learn how sharing thoughts and feelings can decrease stress, anxiety and isolation
- Break – Use mindfulness, movement and sleep to recharge energy
- Exercise – Move in ways that support both body and mind
- Love Your Day – Find joy in everyday moments (big, small and everything in between)
- Tell Someone Who Can Help – Recognise when professional support is needed (and knowing who to contact)
By revealing the SEATBELT acronym, our facilitators can emphasise the importance protective factors play in maintaining wellbeing (“a seatbelt won’t stop a car crash but can save a life”). Students are invited to consider which tools they already use and which they could use more in their daily lives.
Bring the Heroes Toolkit to Your School
Give students the tools they need to maintain their wellbeing and protect against mental ill health. Contact zero2hero to schedule your workshop.